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“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.“
- Kurt Vonnegut
This week, I went in search of the companies digitizing the upkeep of the least sexy, but most important part of our world.
What I found was a bestiary of robots unlike any I’ve encountered in any other industry.
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www.wsj.com/tech/inspection-robots-infrastructure-ebb4172c
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First, why this matters so much.
Put simply, much of America’s built environment — the most critical parts, like bridges, the electrical grid, the buildings in which we live — was built in the 60s and 70s.
Trillions of dollars of steel and concrete is entering middle age.
Surfside’s collapse is but the most infamous example.
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